Prefer a chat interface with context about you and your work?
Quantification of optical pulsed-plane-wave-shaping by chiral sculptured thin films
Abstract The durations and average speeds of ultrashort optical pulses transmitted through chiral sculptured thin films (STFs) were calculated using a finite-difference time-domain algorithm. Chiral STFs are a class of nanoengineered materials whose microstructure comprises parallel helicoidal nanowires grown normal to a substrate. The nanowires are ∼10–300 nm in diameter …